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Containers

Open Repository for Container Tools

Welcome to Containers!

We're a collection of open source tools that create, configure, and work with containers.

🛠️ Tools

Some of our tools include Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, conmon-rs, crun, and RamaLama, as well as our supporting libraries, common, storage, and image in the container-libs repo. Check them out and see all the cool things happening!

Podman Buildah Skopeo crun ramalama

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🤝 Community

We have an active community. Most of our community communication channels are around Podman, but we definitely welcome anyone with an interest in containers or any of our tools.

Maintainers of Containers and other community members generally chat here:

Note: The Matrix room has been bridged with the Discord server

We also hold community meetings around once a month and have a mailing list for additional discussion.

Follow us on Twitter! @podman_io @buildah_io

👩‍💻 Contributing

We welcome and encourage contributions, including issues, discussions, and PR's. Please make sure to read our Contributing Guidelines and our Code of Conduct before doing so.

🔐 Security

Found a security issue? Most projects follow our Security and Disclosure Policy, but a few may have further instructions, so please check the specific project's SECURITY.md in their top-level repository on how to proceed.

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  1. podman podman Public

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    Go 29.5k 2.8k

  2. buildah buildah Public

    A tool that facilitates building OCI images.

    Go 8.4k 851

  3. skopeo skopeo Public

    Work with remote images registries - retrieving information, images, signing content

    Go 10k 875

  4. crun crun Public

    A fast and lightweight fully featured OCI runtime and C library for running containers

    C 3.6k 377

  5. netavark netavark Public

    Container network stack

    Rust 662 121

Repositories

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  • podman Public

    Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

    containers/podman’s past year of commit activity
    Go 29,530 Apache-2.0 2,846 833 (14 issues need help) 115 Updated Nov 4, 2025
  • podman-desktop-extension-ai-lab Public

    Work with LLMs on a local environment using containers

    containers/podman-desktop-extension-ai-lab’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 261 Apache-2.0 66 218 (2 issues need help) 18 Updated Nov 4, 2025
  • nri-plugins Public

    A collection of community maintained NRI plugins

    containers/nri-plugins’s past year of commit activity
    Go 94 Apache-2.0 31 12 6 Updated Nov 4, 2025
  • skopeo Public

    Work with remote images registries - retrieving information, images, signing content

    containers/skopeo’s past year of commit activity
    Go 9,967 Apache-2.0 875 50 (3 issues need help) 18 Updated Nov 4, 2025
  • container-libs Public

    Monorepository with libraries used by the containers projects.

    containers/container-libs’s past year of commit activity
    Go 30 38 239 (1 issue needs help) 20 Updated Nov 4, 2025
  • libkrun Public

    A dynamic library providing Virtualization-based process isolation capabilities

    containers/libkrun’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 1,309 Apache-2.0 116 46 (3 issues need help) 13 Updated Nov 4, 2025
  • podman-py Public

    Python bindings for Podman's RESTful API

    containers/podman-py’s past year of commit activity
    Python 336 Apache-2.0 122 30 (5 issues need help) 11 Updated Nov 4, 2025
  • aardvark-dns Public

    Authoritative dns server for A/AAAA container records. Forwards other request to host's /etc/resolv.conf

    containers/aardvark-dns’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 233 Apache-2.0 43 12 3 Updated Nov 4, 2025
  • qm Public

    QM is a containerized environment for running Functional Safety qm (Quality Management) software

    containers/qm’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 30 GPL-2.0 36 8 2 Updated Nov 4, 2025
  • gvisor-tap-vsock Public

    A new network stack based on gVisor

    containers/gvisor-tap-vsock’s past year of commit activity
    Go 335 Apache-2.0 71 23 (1 issue needs help) 6 Updated Nov 4, 2025